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we don t know what is in the documents. but we know that they were classified at the level of sensitive compartmented information. this is among some of the closely guarded u.s. government secrets. that is the reason why this has now being reviewed by prosecutors at the justice department. by the u.s. attorney in chicago of the which handles these matters. they do damage assessment to see whether there in the six years that these documents were being held in a location that is not secure, whether there is any damage that has been done to national security. of course, the white house says that the white house is cooperating with this review that is being done by the national archives and the justice department. and they say this is obviously something that even the former president even the president was not aware of until these documents were found by his legal team as they were trying to shut down this think tank office that he had set up after he left office in 20 ....
you think animals are sentient? i think pain is pain. if you don t respond to that, there s something seriously wrong with you. it s very buddhist of you, i think. look, when i worked in cape cod, my job is to load this steamer with lobsters, and they don t scream. but you know you hear them scratching against it. i have dreams i m in a sauna and i look through the window and there s a giant lobster like, you know, a bib with a chef on it, you know. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la sha la la la bhutan, a remote, relatively rarely visited kingdom of myth and legend, high in the himalayas, known as land of the thunder dragon. one of the reasons it s not on the tourist trail is it s hard to get to. flying in, you hang on to your seat as the plane negotiates some alarming maneuvers through narrow mountain passes ....
i m at the home and studio of one of sri lanka s most influential artists and activists, jagath weerasinghe. can sri lankans put behind them their bloody past and forge a new and united future? jagath weerasinghe, welcome to hardtalk. i m happy to be here. sitting here in your home, which is also your studio, i wonder how far you ve been influenced as both an artist and an archaeologist by sri lanka s past? i m totally influenced by that. i m totally, yes. everything i do has something to do with the past of sri lanka and the idea of the past, that we keep performing in the present. yeah. but it s notjust sri lanka s past, it s a particularly bloody past that you choose to focus on. why? that is what i call the history of the present. you know, we have a long history coming from, like, fifth century bc, and, you know, there s this great history of sri lanka or south asia. but the 20th century history is i call the history of the present, which is.defines myself and my a ....
have been killed. a metre of fresh snow has fallen, and many areas remain under threat of flooding. president biden has declared a state of emergency, freeing federal aid for the state. those are our top story this hour. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, with me, zainab badawi. i m just outside colombo, the capital of sri lanka. this beautiful island nation has been plunged into its worst economic crisis for more than 70 years. it led to widespread protests and forced the resignation of the president last year. and all this after a long running civil war in which around 100,000 died. i m at the home and studio of one of sri lanka s most influential artists and activists, jagath weerasinghe. can sri lankans put behind them their bloody past and forge a new and united future? jagath weerasinghe, welcome to hardtalk. i m happy to be here. sitting here in your home, which is also your studio, i wonder how far you ve been influenced as both an art ....
chances are, you haven t been to this place. chances are, this is a place you ve never seen. other than maybe blurry cellphone videos, old black-and-white newsreels from world war ii. chances are, bad things were happening in the footage you saw. myanmar. after 50 years of nightmare, something unexpected is happening here, and it s pretty incredible. in yangon, capital city of myanmar, it s dark. blackouts are frequent with the ancient power grid. what sources of light there are in the street cast an eerie, yellow-orange hue. for almost 100 years under british rule, this was rangoon. in 1948, after helping the british fight off the japanese, and with a new taste for self-determination, the country gained independence. after a decade of instability, however, the military consolidated power and never let go. elections, they came and went. the results ignored, opposition punished or silenced entirely. burma, now myanmar, where orwell had once served as a colonial pol ....